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A day after endorsing party general secretary Amit Shahs views on construction of a temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya,BJP president Rajnath Singh Sunday said that Hindutva was never the political agenda of the BJP and that Ram temple would not be an election issue,nor a political issue for the party in the coming Lok Sabha polls.

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The BJP would go into 2014 elections with development agenda,Rajnath said.

He was in Amritsar to attend a meeting of the Punjab BJP executive committee in preparation for the Lok Sabha polls. The two-day meeting began Sunday.

Responding to queries regarding Shahs comments during a visit to Ayodhya on Saturday,Rajnath said,The issue (construction of a temple at the site) should not be unnecessarily politicised.

It was a national issue that was sub-judice and we should wait for the Supreme Court judgment,he said.

Shah had not tried to make the issue a political or electoral one,he asserted.

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The BJP chief also invoked a Supreme Court definition to state that Hindutva was a way of life. Religion cannot be made a political agenda,he added. Hindutva cannot be limited to any caste,sect or religious boundary.

Rajnath also reiterated that as per the information with him,Shah had just expressed his wish for construction of a grand Ram temple at the site claimed to be his birthplace. A Hindu would obviously want a temple,a Muslim a mosque,a Christian a church and a Sikh a gurdwara,he added.

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Responding to a question,Singh ruled out differences within the NDA on the issue.